Series I: Personal, 1938-1959, 1970

1/1 Address in the Alte Synagoge in Berlin 1940

1/2 Clippings undated, 1958, 1970

1/3 Clippings Biographical and Obituaries 1938-1958

1/4 Gesellschaft zur Unterstützung jüdischer Handwerker und Künstler Certificate of Lifelong Membership 1926 [copy, original in OS 35]

1/5 Heinrich Stahl-Heim 1938, 1958

1/6 Photographs undated

1/7 Report on Jewish Refugees in London, Belgium and France undated

1/8 Stahl, Jenny 1946-1959

Series II: Correspondence, 1932-1942

1/9 Business Correspondence 1932-1938

1/10 Jewish Community Correspondence 1939-1940

1/11 Personal Correspondence 1942

Series III: Photo Albums, 1931-1939

ALB 78 Ahawah Children's Home, Berlin and Haifa 1938

ALB 85 Berlin Old Age Home 1931

ALB 76 Berlin-Weisensee Unidentified Organization undated

ALB 77 Heinrich Stahl-Heim Album undated

ALB-OS 27 Jüdische Winterhilfe der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin Zentrale: Rosenstrasse undated

ALB-OS 22 Jüdisches Altersheim Landsberg an der Warthe (Cover) undated

ALB-OS 22 Jüdisches Altersheim Landsberg an der Warthe (Pages) undated

ALB 86 Jüdisches Altersheim Lützowstrasse 48, Berlin undated

ALB 69 Jüdisches Jugendwohnheim und Lehrlingsheim, Berlin-Pankow 1938

ALB 84 Kindererholungsheim Arendsee 1932

1/12 Portfolio Rut Anselm 1939

ALB 67 Zweites Waisenhaus, Berlin-Pankow 1938

The items in this collection primarily document the work of Heinrich Stahl as the chairman of the Berlin Jewish Community. Other topics encountered in this collection include Jewish relief organizations, and Stahl's work in the insurance industry

Material pertaining to Heinrich Stahl's role as head of the Jewish Community of Berlin will be found in several places in the collection. The biographies located in Series I focus on this portion of Stahl's life. His involvement with Jewish organizations will be seen through the address he gave at the Alte Synagoge in Berlin and the correspondence with community members found in Series II

This collection also contains extensive material on the work of Jewish relief organizations during Nazi Germany, mainly in the form of photo albums located in Series III. These albums contain photographs of several children's homes and institutions as well as of the Jüdische Winterhilfe offices on Rosenstrasse in Berlin. In addition, this series also holds albums of old-age homes, including the Heinrich Stahl-Heim. A few documents pertaining to the Heinrich Stahl-Heim is also available in Series I: Personal

Some documentation of Heinrich Stahl's position as an insurance executive can also be found in this collection. Most of this among his business correspondence, located in Series II; brief mention of this role will also be found among the biographical clippings in Series I

Heinrich Stahl was born in Berlin-Rudow on April 13, 1868. For much of his life, he worked an insurance executive, including with the Viktoria Versicherungsgesellschaft in Berlin, and was also involved in the Jewish communal affairs. In 1933 he was elected chairman of the Berlin Jewish Community. He was very involved in assisting Berlin Jews in leaving Germany, and in this capacity worked with many organizations, including the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland. On June 11, 1942 Heinrich Stahl was deported from Berlin with his wife Jenny. He died in Theresienstadt in November 1942 of a lung infection at the age of 75

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Photographs removed to Photograph Collection

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